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Originally Posted by Allie
In the same light of not wishing to offend a belief system, Phillip, can I ask another question? 
I am assuming you will have made some study of the sciences at school - or even at a higher level - and so wonder how you reconcile your understanding of physics, chemistry, biology and Earth sciences to your understanding of Yahweh?
Assuming your system allows that Yahweh is the only creator, then it is must follow that Yahweh is also unfathomable in the sense that our most brilliant minds on earth have only scratched the surfaces of these sciences - which in turn are his creation.
You will forgive me, I hope, if I say that the Yahweh you describe appears a little perdantic, petty and perhaps even a little insecure since he appears to require such rigid obedience from an aspect of his creation (us) which must be rather tiny when viewed as a whole.
I cannot reconcile this Yahweh with a Creator whose brilliance (for lack of suitable words) is such that by comparison our minds must be somewhere around the level of an amoeba. How can such a mighty creator shrink down to a level whereby our belief system matters so much? Isn't that an insult to Yahweh - to assume he has mortal foibles? |
Hi Allie,
All the sciences, art, and studies are our ways of studying and discovering what Yahweh have created. Allow me to quote Arcora from another thread:
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Originally Posted by arcora
There is a long history of scientists going full circle and realizing that science itself leads to God.
Albert Einstein was one.
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To add to that, everything in this world leads to Yahweh. Because what you see, hear, touch, taste, and feel are the essences of my Father Yahweh. Let me lead you deeper into this understanding. Everything GLORIFIES Him one way or another. You may not know it. I may not know it. But it does glorify Him, some things are easier to see than others. This entire universe is in a incredible, incredible precise cycle. If one thing drops out from the picture, we would either die right away or die eventually. We can not survive. You and I are the glorification of Yahweh. We show His tremendous power, intelligence, and magnificence. Then, if you view who we are, we are a tiny, tiny, tiny, and TINY fraction of His brilliance as you have called it.
So how can such a mighty Creator shrink down to our level? There is the key. You wonder why people call Him the Almighty. Because He is capable of creating a vast universe our minds would explode if we even try to comprehend 1/trillionth of its incredible magnificence. But then....here is a whisper...He can also love and embrace something as small as a piece of sand. Did you realize that every day His thoughts about us are like the sands of the ocean? This is from scripture in the book of Psalms. He constantly thinks about us, about our well-being, our wants and desires, our thoughts (good or bad), our compassions, our past & future, our deeds, our passion, our likes and dislikes, our feelings, AND even the number of hairs on your head!
If He can do these things, He of course can contemplate our insignificant belief systems or whatever comes to mind.
-Phillip